Quotes from William Osler
Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.
- William Osler
Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.
- William Osler
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
- William Osler
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
- William Osler
Perfect happiness for student and teacher will come with the abolition of examinations, which are stumbling blocks and rocks of offense in the pathway of the true student.
- William Osler
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
- William Osler
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
- William Osler
Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
- William Osler
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
- William Osler
Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
- William Osler
The future is today.
- William Osler
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
- William Osler